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‘It’s been very tough’: hope of progress in gruelling battle against south Wales wildfire

Efforts of emergency services and military in Blaenavon appear to be working but there are fears for the future

More than three weeks after it began burning and two days after the military deployed to the area, there is hope that the huge wildfire on the hillside above the Ebbw valley village of Blaenavon may finally be coming under control.

Emergency workers and soldiers described a gruelling battle against the deep-seated peat fire that has spread over 4,000 hectares (9,800 acres), putting lives, farmland and property at risk.

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Birmingham 2026: European athletics championships day seven – live

Here’s what’s coming up at Alexander Stadium (all times BST) …

7.15pm – pole vault (men) final

7.55pm – long jump (women) final

8.35pm – 4x100m relay (mixed) final

8.50pm – 3,000m steeplechase (men) final

9.13pm – 1500m (women) final

9.33pm – 4x400m relay (women) final

9.48pm – 4x400m relay (men) final

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Scotland appoint 39-year-old Pocognoli as successor to Clarke in fresh approach

  • Belgian is the first non-Scot in role since Berti Vogts

  • Scotland face Slovenia on 26 September in Nations League

The Scottish Football Association has appointed the Belgian Sébastien Pocognoli as the successor to Steve Clarke as manager. The 39-year-old, who was sacked by Monaco in June, will become the country’s first non-Scottish manager since Berti Vogts, who was in charge from 2002 to 2004.

Clarke’s abrupt departure came after Scotland were knocked out of the World Cup at the group stage. He had signed a four-year contract extension immediately before the tournament. It quickly became clear the SFA would turn towards a foreign manager with the Danes Jon Dahl Tomasson and Kasper Hjulmand being linked with the position.

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Cyclists criticise ‘catastrophic’ safety measures after Finlay Tarling’s death

  • Rider’s union expresses fury about Volta a Portugal

  • Tarling died after collision with non-race vehicle

The professional cycling community has reacted with fury to the death of the teenage Welsh rider, Finlay Tarling, in the Volta a Portugal, with a leading former professional describing the race’s safety measures as “catastrophic”.

Tarling, the younger brother of the Netcompany Ineos professional Josh Tarling, was in collision with a non-race vehicle driving towards the peloton while he competed in the Portuguese race’s eighth stage. The 19-year-old’s death on Friday has led to a surge of anger, with the rider’s union, the Cyclistes Professionnels Associés (CPA), describing itself as “furious”.

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The Guardian view on the changed world of job interviews: missing the human factor | Editorial

Andy Burnham’s doubts about Zoom interviews apply more widely to a hiring process being transformed by AI

Almost half of UK jobseekers have found themselves pitching to an AI bot, according to recent research, leading many to give up in frustration. As one despairing applicant lamented in the pages of the Guardian a few months ago: “The hiring process has become so mechanised, both figuratively and literally, that it’s hard to believe that the people who end up getting hired aren’t merely the best at gaming the system.” For young people especially, experiencing repeated rejection without interacting with a single human being is alienating as well as disappointing.

It was encouraging, therefore, to hear Andy Burnham voice concerns about online recruitment processes on a recent employment-focused podcast. Describing the jobseeking environment for young people as “harsh”, the prime minister criticised the widespread use of interviews on Zoom and Microsoft Teams, and questioned whether applicants could properly convey their personal qualities without a face-to-face meeting.

Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here.

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Flemming’s dramatic Burnley double pegs back West Ham on Championship return

More games, less money but plenty of entertainment will make it a compelling Championship season for Burnley and West Ham. Zian Flemming’s two late goals secured a much-deserved point for the hosts as the Hammers cracked under pressure in this Premier League tribute act.

Maximilian Kilman and Manor Solomon pounced in the box to seemingly set West Ham on their way to victory but Flemming ensured the points were shared, scoring first from the spot and then from a corner. Burnley had missed numerous chances but found his golden touch at the right time.

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Disneyland Announces Star Wars/Fortnite Collaboration, 'Avatar' Attraction, and a Newer Tomorrowland

Saturday Disneyland announced a special Star Wars-themed collaboration with third-person shooter game Fortnite — including a slick new trailer for its Star Wars: Smuggler's Gambit quest.
Visitors to Disneyland's Smuggler's Run attraction at Disney's theme parks in Orlando and in Anaheim can accept a special mission while waiting in line for the ride, according to The Hollywood Reporter. And "If they succeed, they will get a unique Forsworn Trooper Outfit in a newly-created Fortnite adventure called Smugglers Gambit set in that same universe."
"Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run | Fortnite marks the first time this attraction has reached beyond its physical walls into a connected game world — a story that starts in a queue in Orlando or Anaheim can now continue on a screen almost anywhere," said Sean Shoptaw, executive VP of Disney Games and Digital Entertainment.... "Together these experiences reflect our ambition to connect stories and worlds across formats into one converged entertainment ecosystem...."

The cockpit technology in the ride was actually created using Epic's Unreal Engine, which allows for many assets from the ride to appear in Smugglers Gambit.... "Whether you're at a Disney Park or playing Fortnite with your friends, fans have new ways to keep their Star Wars adventures going," [said Adam Sussman, president of Epic Games]. "This is only the beginning of what's possible when world-class storytellers bring their creativity into Fortnite." Disney, of course, is an investor in Epic Games, and the two companies have been at work building a new world that will connect to Fortnite with all of the Disney's beloved characters... This new collaboration, however, extends to the real world for the first time, bringing some video game magic to Disney's parks, and some of that theme park magic to the video game.


Disneyland will also launch a new area based on James Cameron's Avatar: The Way of Water, reports The Orange County Register — which even has a picture of the Avatar Destination ride's model, showing an enormous (and very colorful) waterfall. The model was part of Saturday's Disney fan expo "D23", showing the Disneyland Monorail traveling around the edge of the attraction (which reportedly involves a 30-person vehicle).

Saturday's event also included details on the long-awaited "reimagining" of the park's Tomorrowland area, with their official blog promising "Yesterday's tomorrow, today!" Tomorrowland has some history, explains the Orange County Register:




The land's first update in 1967 was dubbed the New Tomorrowland with the 1998 makeover jokingly referred to as the New, New Tomorrowland. The latest iteration is already being called the New, New, New Tomorrowland. Disneyland's Land of Tomorrow has plenty of empty spaces in need of some Imagineering magic with the Tomorrowland Theater, Star Wars Launch Bay and PeopleMover track all sitting underused.


Or, as The Wrap puts it, "The problem with Tomorrowland, of course, has been keeping up with tomorrow."

1967 introduced New Tomorrowland, with Adventures Thru Inner Space, Carousel of Progress and the PeopleMover giving it the "World on the Move" theme. In 1975 Space Mountain opened and in the 1980's the Tomorrowland stage was enclosed to become a 3D theater, where "Magic Journeys" and "Captain EO" played. Star Tours also opened in the 1980's, giving the area some additional adrenaline. But an elaborate redo of the area, planned for the 1990's, was cut short due to financial woes following the opening of Disneyland Paris and were largely shuttered. (In Florida, a new Tomorrowland was approximated in the mid-1990's but not really followed through on, adopting some of the timelessness of the Jules Verne-inspired Discoveryland from Paris.)

Since the 1990's, Tomorrowland in Disneyland has become largely defunct or outright abandoned... In the late 1990's, Disney tried to use the [PeopleMover] track for a high-speed attraction called Rocket Rods. The attraction never worked properly and was shuttered after just a few years. Rumor has it that the intensity of the ride vehicles actually weakened the PeopleMover track and removing the track would be time consuming and costly. So since the turn of the millennium, there has just been track above and all around Tomorrowland that sits, untouched.

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Natuurbrand in Hürtgenwald is volgens autoriteiten onder controle

HÜRTGENWALD (ANP/DPA) - De natuurbrand in het Duitse Hürtgenwald is onder controle, melden de lokale autoriteiten. Een dag eerder werd al gemeld dat de brandweer succes boekte bij het bestrijden van de brand in de buurt van Aken, bij de Nederlandse grens.

Op zondag zouden nog enkele honderden brandweermensen bezig zijn met de bluswerkzaamheden. Het getroffen gebied is omringd door een brandwerende strook, waardoor de vlammen zich niet verder kunnen verspreiden. De meesten van de ongeveer 2000 bewoners die het gebied eerder moesten verlaten, konden terugkeren naar hun huizen.

Waardoor de brand uitbrak, is nog altijd niet duidelijk. De politie in Keulen onderzoekt de oorzaak en opende een tiplijn. De natuurbrand in Hürtgenwald is de grootste in de geschiedenis van de deelstaat Noordrijn-Westfalen.


Hockeyer Telgenkamp bezorgt Oranje extra pit bij eerste WK-zege

AMSTELVEEN (ANP) - Nederland had een beetje pit nodig bij de 1-0-achterstand in de eerste WK-wedstrijd tegen Nieuw-Zeeland, vond hockeyer Duco Telgenkamp. "Even moest het gas erop. Dat voelde ik en een aantal jongens in het team ook en daarin namen we elkaar mee", zei de Hagenaar, die Oranje zelf op voorsprong schoot bij de 5-1-zege.

Volgens Telgenkamp was het Wagener Stadion in Amstelveen een beetje in slaap gesust na de treffer van Nieuw-Zeeland. "Toen we de 1-1 maakten, merkte je dat we in een bepaald momentum kwamen en was het wachten op de tweede treffer. Toen die kwam, voelde je die opluchting in het hele stadion, dat was echt lekker." Hij vierde het met het publiek met een handje achter zijn oor. "Ja heerlijk!"

De 24-jarige hockeyer zag de ruimte voor het schot, maar hoorde vooral iemand hard 'schieten' roepen toen de bal voor zijn backhand lag. "Dat was voor mij wel het teken dat ik moest schieten."


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Brand breekt uit in keuken van woning

In de keuken van een woning aan de Zoomstraat in Rotterdam-Noord heeft zondagavond een korte brand gewoed. Niemand is hierbij gewond geraakt.

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The Field and the Great Walnut Tree in Winter, Eragny, Camille Pissarro

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